FIT9137 Assignment 2 - Presentation
Submission Guidelines
The Assessment – Assignment 2 – Presentation is worth 25% of the Unit Marks.
Deadline: Week-8 – 26th April 2024 Friday - 11:55pm (Melbourne time)
● Submission format and details:
● To avoid academic integrity issues please avoid copy and paste from any resources.
If you use a resource, please clearly reference them. In particular, copy and paste
from:
1) assignment instructions and/or
2) from supporting and reference documentations.
are strongly discouraged as this will be picked up by Turnitin and would increase
your similarity scores. Any similarity score > 20% would trigger our attention and
we will have to investigate it officially. You will have a chance to see the Turnitin
report when you upload a submission (even in draft mode). We recommend you to
check the Turnitin report before finalising your submission.
● Please be aware your assignments will be checked through and assessed by Turnitin
and you should avoid the above two important points. Also, any text must be phrased
in your own words and to your best understanding.
● Please note that the requirements for this Assignment are different from those that
may be given as supporting documents in Moodle. Your knowledge and
understanding should be for the assessment tasks requirements here. Any
supporting documentation you refer to would only be a guidance and cannot be
copied verbatim from those resources.
● Submitted files via one submission link should be of these file formats:
● Presentation slides file: - Firstname_LastName_StudentID.PDF &
● Video Presentation file: - FirstName_LastName.FileType (Video files used
on the web .avi .f4v .flv .fmp4 .m4v .mov .mp4 .mpe .mpeg .mpg .ogv .qt .ts
.webm)
● Note that during your assignment submission, you may see a warning for
your video file stating something of the form “This file will not be
submitted to Turnitin…”. This is completely fine, and you can simply
ignore this message. The video file will NOT be submitted to Turnitin;
only the slides file is submitted.
● The 25% of the unit marks are allocated for final recorded video presentation and
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your presentation slides uploaded in Moodle and due on Friday of Week 8
(deadline). The uploaded file must be a clear student video recording of the
presentation. The file can be any video format that can be opened on a standard
Windows computer without specialised software (such as mp4). The length of the
recording should be a maximum of 15:00 minutes only. Any video contents
exceeding 15:00 minutes will be ignored and not marked. A pdf or ppt version of your
presentation slides should also be submitted to Moodle. You will be marked based on
both your presentation video and slides (including the recorded pages and your
Appendix).
● Please note that you must follow the same instructions as in Assignment 1 regarding
presenting a copy of your student ID and showing your face for the Video and
Presentation files as well.
● The marks breakdown for the Assignment-2 will be 30% for video presentation and
70% for the content on the network design concept in the presentation slides.
● Important Submission check for every student: It is the students’ responsibility to check
if their submitted work is markable by our teaching team. It is strongly recommended
that, after making a draft submission (before finalising it), every student immediately
download their own draft submitted work (e.g., recorded video/PDF/imn file, etc) and
check if the draft submission would be downloadable/readable/markable by a tutor. If
the teaching team member is unable to mark your submission, 50% reduction of total
marks may be applied.
● When you submit the assignment on Moodle and perform the above check, please make
sure the submission is not left in the draft mode. Before the expiry of the deadline make
sure, the submission is made final. If the submission is left in draft mode, it will be
deemed as NOT submitted.
● You can create multiple video parts at different times and combine and submit a single video
at the end. Make sure that the final video is clear and understandable.
● If your device does not have a camera, you can borrow a device from Monash Connect or
Library. It's your responsibility to plan ahead for this. Monash Connect or Library not having
available devices for loan at a particular point in time is not a valid excuse.
● The teaching team members may not be able to understand a language beyond English. All
demonstrations must be in English. If your device does not support English, you may loan a
device from Monash Connect or Library.
Penalties:
• Late submissions will result in a 10% deduction of the total marks per calendar day (up to one
week). For example, if you get 80/100 marks originally and submit 2 days late, then you would
get a 20-mark deduction (10 marks per day) and your final marks would be 60/100.
• Submissions more than 7 calendar days after the due date will receive a mark of zero (0) and
no assessment feedback will be provided.
• If the video recording exceeds the 15.00-minute limit, the parts beyond 15:00 minutes will
NOT be marked and will be ignored.
• Speeding up the video recording (e.g., using software) is NOT allowed and such submissions
will receive a ZERO mark.
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Assignment release/marking policy:
• The unit policy is to release the assignment for the student to work for two working
semester weeks on the assessment. Hence two complete weeks will be provided for
students to work on the Assignment-2. Please note that the markings and feedback will
be completed and given after 10 working days. Your total final combined marks for
this assignment will be uploaded to the Moodle submission link and will be released
only after marking of all students is finalised.
Learning Outcomes covered:
• Analyse and formulate the functions and architectures of (wireless) local area networks,
building backbone networks and the Internet.
• Examine networks using the underlying fundamental theories, models and protocols for data
transmission.
• The Assignment-2 covers material from Weeks 4-6.
Late submissions and special considerations:
• All extension and special consideration requests are managed centrally. The teaching
team cannot directly decide if you can/cannot have a late submission. Your request
should be submitted directly to:
consideration
Please make sure to select the correct assignment from the menu provided in the
system, and not enter an assignment name manually.
• Without an approved special consideration request, late submission penalties will
apply as described above.
Plagiarism: This is an individual assignment. Group work is not allowed. It is an academic integrity
requirement that your submitted work be original. Significant penalties apply if there is any evidence
of copying, collaboration, pasting from websites, contract cheating, or copying from textbooks. When
you are asked to use Internet resources to answer a question, this does not mean copying and pasting
text from websites. Write answers in your own words such that your understanding of the answer is
evident.
Marks: This assignment is worth 25% of your unit marks.
Feedback: Your Tutor will provide you with marks and feedback. If you cannot explain/present your
work in video or what you write in your presentation slides, you may get low marks due to not having
synchronised material in video presentation and submitted files.
Presentation: The presentation should look professional, which means you need to pay attention to
spelling, punctuation, grammar, and visualisation. It is important that your presentation has a clear
structure. Prepare presentation slides of at least 10 pages/slides* long and a maximum of 15
pages/slides. The presentation should ideally not contain too much text and should use a minimum
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font size of 12pt (preferably larger). You may include tables, figures, pictures, graphical designs etc.
The page/slide limit doesn’t include title page, references, and Appendix. Any page/slide beyond the
page/slide limit of 15 will not be marked. Use FIT standard presentation format.
Note: *page/slide = You can call it either Page or Slide
Note: You can find great tips on how to prepare a presentation on Monash’s web pages. Here are
some links to get started:
Language and Learning and Online website:
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● Software tools for drawing sitemaps, any drawing tool should work, for example LucidChart,
or even presentation tools such as PowerPoint, Keynote or Google Slides. Scans of hand-drawn
maps are acceptable if they are neat and easily readable.
● In order to record yourself, we recommend you use Zoom.
Monash University – Zoom (https://monash.zoom.us). However, you are free to use any other
software as long as the final file submitted to Moodle is understandable and accessible by our
teaching team.
Network Design Individual Assignment
Reporting: An Enterprise Network Design Report
A Request For Proposal (RFP) to Design Wired LANs,
Wireless LANs and support Backbone Network
1. Assignment Description
Objective
A public transport company requires its office buildings to be connected over a wired LAN and
Wireless LAN (WLAN). You have been asked to respond to the following excerpt from their
RFP (Request For Proposals) in the newspaper.
Scope of The Work
At present, the total number of office employees in Melbourne is 360. Each office worker is
provided with an office space or cubicle with a multimedia desktop PC having a wired network
connection. Owing to a business acquisition, the number of employees in Melbourne is
expected to increase substantially. The size of the Melbourne office, both Wired and Wireless
LAN will increase (from current 360 employees) to 600 employees; after two new 2-storey
buildings called East side building & West side building (located across the road) have been
acquired to accommodate the additional office space needed to provide equitable seating
arrangements for the increased number of employees in the new buildings (see Figure 1).
Figure 1:A Typical floor plan for structured cabling for LAN and WLAN
The new buildings require structured network wiring for network connections, where each floor
has a wiring closet with necessary structured cabling. Each wiring closet requires four fiber optic
cables running to a dedicated server room in the basement (same as the ground floor). The new
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buildings also need a backbone network to be connected to the existing Main office network
(across the road). Please note that the ground floor of the buildings (west and east) are not the
same, they have different ground floor (same as the word basement)
It is envisaged that the new buildings in Melbourne office would support, both, wired and
wireless networked office environment where each of the staff PC and their personal laptops
would be equipped with office desktop high resolution video conferencing software (VoIP),
along with the usual business applications such as web, email, and regular office productivity
packages. The average network traffic generated by each active wired network user is estimated
to be around 25-30 Mbps, while the WLAN traffic generated for each floor would be 25% of the
wired traffic.
The expected user activity pattern for the new buildings may be seen in Figure 2, where the new
buildings will accommodate the new staff members equally distributed to each floor of the new
buildings. The Wired LAN infrastructure needs to be designed to support the anticipated peak
time data traffic, and in addition, support the Wireless LAN. The design should show the WLAN
Access Points (AP) connectivity to the wired infrastructure. At the existing main office network
(across the backbone network), a capacity increase will be required for key devices and their
support infrastructure (e.g., Servers, Routers and/or switches) to accommodate the increased
traffic volume from the new buildings. Employees are expected to access the main office
network and its resources frequently. So, from the business perspective, it is important that the
backbone network connectivity is maintained all the time. Loss of productivity is not an option
from the network connectivity point of view.
Figure 2: The number of expected active users during the business hours.
Figure 2 also shows the expected number of active users for the two new buildings during the
business hours. This number of expected active users is useful for minimum network
connections requirements and to estimate the minimum throughput network design
requirements.
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2. Assignment Requirements
Submissions for this assignment should be in the form of presentation slides (PDF/PPT) and voice-
over video presentation and its complete set of slides with explanatory figures and other
requirements for a professional presentation. The assignment specifications are in the form of a
request for proposal (RFP) to potential suppliers. An RFP is a solicitation often made through a
bidding process by any company interested in the design and procurement of installation contract
services. This assignment provides an opportunity for you to work individually and apply Data
Communications and Computer Networking concepts to a practical network design. You are
required to design the network, make networking recommendations based on the RFP requirements
and present your solutions in a formal presentation.
2.1 The video presentation should contain the following important diagrams to support your
proposal:
(a) A conceptual high-level diagram showing a typical floor plan, backbone network
(connecting the floors) and a backbone network to connect to the main office.
(b) A typical floor plan (only one floor of both the East & West building would be sufficient).
(c) Students need to specify the types of Switches, Routers, Access Points, Cables, and show
the Servers, Routers, Switches and Access Point (AP) locations in the design. No addressing
and/or routing is required.
(d) Traffic throughput calculations for each floor, each building and backbone network.
(e) Backbone connection diagrams (using schematic diagrams of cross-section of a building
showing switches, routers etc.).
(f) Backbone network connectivity for the new buildings connecting with the head office
building.
2.2 Students may include some details of the following information in response to the request
for Proposal (RFP) in the Appendix. We ask you to submit your final presentation slides along
with your appendix.
(a) Project Requirements: Project requirements can be derived from the Objectives and Scope
of Work section of the RFP. A requirement brief is usually an itemised list of the client’s
requirements derived from the RFP.
(b) Wired, Wireless LAN and backbone network Design: Wired, Wireless LAN design (for a
typical floor) and backbone network design, must include the following information:
(i) Computer desktop layout plan with network topology for a typical floor level.
(ii) Switch and Wireless Access Point locations on a typical floor, vertical cable paths
and lengths between the floors. Switch and Access Point functional specifications.
Assume the floor to ceiling height as 3 metres approximately including the false ceiling.
(iii) Router (and/or Switches) locations (both the existing and the new ones) and their
interconnections providing backbone network connectivity.
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(c) Design Rules (or Assumptions): You need to outline design rules for LANs, WLANs, and
Backbone Network. Your description should include:
(i) Detailed steps required in the network design process,
(ii) Methods used to form estimates of network performance for each type of devices,
(iii) An example of a basic sample design showing proposed floor plan, assumptions,
justifications, and calculations.
(iv) Assumptions of backbone connectivity using wired/wireless media needs to be
reported.
(d) Recommendations and Justification: A summary of your recommendations with a
statement of justification.
[e] Remark for backbone connectivity building to building: Backbone network, please refer to
Assignment-2-Support Doc slides 22-25 (available on Moodle).
2.3 Ethical Network Usage policy and unethical behaviour:
In your presentation, address some examples of unethical activities that users could potentially
engage in. Additionally, how would you propose to address these issues through the development of
an Ethical Network Usage policy with a list of guidelines regarding appropriate network conduct,
prohibited activities, and behaviours deemed unethical? Discuss three identified unethical activities
and three policy directives as part of your presentation. Note that your answer must relate to your
particular network design rather than being completely generic, applicable to any network.
Proposed structure of presentation slides:
● Title page
● A Brief Summary of Problem Definition
● Important Information and Diagram(s) listed in Sections 2.1 and 2.3.
● Conclusions and Recommendations
● References (You would usually stop here in your recorded video)
● Appendix (This may contain additional information listed in Section 2.2)
Sources and referencing
Any claims or recommendations that you make should be substantiated with supporting references.
That means that you cannot just claim that A is better than B, you have to argue why that is the case
and point to external sources that can serve as evidence. You can use the unit’s recommended
textbooks and other standard literature as sources, but you will also need to use additional
documentation to find all the technical information and commercial details for this report. Whenever
you use material from an external source, make sure that you reference that source. You also need to
assess the quality and reliability of any source. An independent expert review of different
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technologies is much more trustworthy. References should be listed correctly (see conference papers
or journal for the reference). You may lose marks for poor referencing. You should use the APA
referencing style, which is explained in detail here:
[https://guides.lib.monash.edu/citing-referencing/apa7th ]
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Please visit the discussion forum on Ed. Ed forum has a mega chain to discuss any queries and any
frequently asked questions already posted. Please visit and consult the ed forum and search for any
related query you may have with regards to the Assignment-2 questions.
ChatGPT referencing:
Generative AI tools are not restricted for this assessment task, ChatGPT use and referencing:
In this assessment, you can use generative artificial intelligence (AI) to assist you in any way.
Acknowledging the use of generative artificial intelligence, If you use ChatGPT, then you need to
acknowledge the use of ChatGPT (https://chat.openai.com/) to generate materials that may have been
used in some form or the other and included within this assessment in a modified form (see Learn HQ)
Example Acknowledgement would be: “I acknowledge the use of ChatGPT
(https://chat.openai.com/) to refine the academic language and accuracy of my own work.
On x April 2024 I submitted my Assignment-2 with the instruction to “Improve the academic
tone and accuracy of network design, technical details etc.. language, including grammatical
structures, punctuation, and vocabulary”. The output (here) was then modified further to
better represent my own tone and style of writing. “
For further instructions on generative AI uses please refer to the following Monash link:
online/using-artificial-intelligence
